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This article approaches the values underpinning derelict mining rehabilitation plans, their assessment in monetary terms, and reviews the empirical studies literature on this theme. The paper correspondingly contains four main aims. The first involves putting into perspective the thematic content on the rehabilitation of derelict and depressed mining areas, transforming them into mining heritage tourism products designed to trigger sustainable regional development. The second aim, concerns defining the range of benefits and values potentially arising. The third seeks to demonstrate and discuss why and how the theoretical frameworks of Total Economic Value (TEV) and economic valuation, taken together with the contingent valuation approach, enable the monetary estimation of the range of non-market individual values, through eliciting the individual's willingness to pay (WTP) for the rehabilitation. And the fourth objective incorporates reviewing the literature on empirical studies estimating the monetary values of mining rehabilitation plans through recourse to the Contingent Valuation (CV) approach. We proceed by demonstrating that TEV, the economic valuation concept and CV are approaches appropriate to estimating the aforementioned benefits; we defend their utility as important inputs to raising the efficiency of political decision making processes and ensure local populations actively comply and participate in the rehabilitation process. Finally, we conclude that the empirical studies hitherto applied for estimating the monetary values of mining rehabilitation and remediation through recourse to CV remain very few despite the fact that this estimation type is increasingly recognised as an important tool in decision making processes on the rehabilitation of industrial cultural heritage in general, and mining heritage in particular.

This research paper discusses the rise of the heritage and tourist industry in Cornwall. It aims to historically contextualize this process by analyzing it in relation to the neo-liberal political landscape of the 1980s. The paper highlights several consequences of industrial heritage tourism in the region, including the growing gap between rich and poor that resulted from the arrival of newcomers from the richer Eastern counties and the perceived downplaying of Cornish heritage. It will explain how these developments paved the way for regionalist activists who strived for more Cornish autonomy in the field of heritage preservation and exploitation. ; SUBMITTED: OCT 2017; REVISION SUBMITTED: JAN 2018; ACCEPTED: FEB 2018; REFEREED ANONYMOUSLY; PUBLISHED ONLINE: 15 MAY 2018

This research paper discusses the rise of the heritage and tourist industry in Cornwall. It aims to historically contextualize this process by analyzing it in relation to the neo-liberal political landscape of the 1980s. The paper highlights several consequences of industrial heritage tourism in the region, including the growing gap between rich and poor that resulted from the arrival of newcomers from the richer Eastern counties and the perceived downplaying of Cornish heritage. It will explain how these developments paved the way for regionalist activists who strived for more Cornish autonomy in the field of heritage preservation and exploitation.

Industrial heritage deals directly with working-class experience in a very public forum, but has not really been analysed in relation to class issues. This article discusses the case of ex-workers re-employed as heritage guides to tell the story of their own lives at a living history coalmining-museum, exploring the nature of the performances/representations of class that are produced. Heritage performance is caught up in a double bind that is familiar to other kinds of working-class representation: a continual equivocation between foregrounding dignity and autonomy on the one hand, and acknowledging subjugation and defeat on the other.This tension is played out, though differently, both in the guides' past occupations and their present ones.The article examines the public narratives they produce for visitors in the here and now as well as locating these in an understanding of their current positions as tour guide employees and their living through of their memories and identities as mineworkers.

This paper explores the history of representing coalmining heritage in museums between the 1960s and 1980s. The process of representing industry in museums during a period of significant economic change was highly contested. Whilst political and economic leaders often expressed a desire to vanquish the 'old black industrial image', there was a growing popular concern to venerate and represent an industrial culture and landscape that appeared under threat. At the same time the curation of industrial heritage, with its focus on collective memory, associational life and culture, represented a clear break with an earlier regional museum inheritance characterised by singular philanthropic and antiquarian collections and institutional developments. After 1960, the creation of museums to represent coalmining brought these tensions and new agendas to the fore. This article suggests that by examining in detail the historical context in which they were created we can better understand the nuanced and complex process of musealisation and its relationship to the experience of economic change and deindustrialisation.

AbstractThis paper explores the role of mining heritage tourism attributes on a destination's overall performance, and examines its competitiveness with other cities within the same regional boundary. Relevance‐determinance analysis (RDA) and competitive‐performance analysis (CPA) were used to achieve these objectives. The data were obtained from a simple random sampling questionnaire survey of tourists visiting the Sawahlunto old coal mining town, an UNESCO World Heritage Site in Indonesia. The study results indicate that mining heritage and natural beauty were not major determinants in the overall performance of the destination. Although these core attributes were considered very important in destination choice, they each had a relatively low influence on overall experience offered by the destination. Instead, the study found that three attributes, namely sport and recreational opportunities, shopping, and cuisine, were higher‐impact drivers of competitiveness. Because Sawahlunto's performance is below average, policies to enhance these three attributes while retaining the unique experience offered by the post‐mining context should be at the forefront of planning by local decision‐makers and destination managers.

The paper explores government capacities of Sardinian mining heritage (dating back 8 thousand years of mining culture, crashed as an industrial engine in '60s and proclaimed as heritage of great importance by UNESCO in 1997.). Nowadays, characterized by depopulation, lack of management and managing, astonishing sites are conceived, semi-perceived and pseudo-lived. The research has an orientation, character and strategy, pragmatic orientated with qualitative character; oriented to determine what and how should be done in relation to what is wanted to be done. It is a multidisciplinary approach, which implies that research always takes place in a specific social, historical, economic and political context. Questioning trends and urban potentials of Sardinian territories, with a contemporary European strategy, the research discusses on shared cultural experience as long term sustainability, lies down and raises at the level of the local community. The main paper issue is examining 'Glocal' - local and global inter-governance capacity by using 'Axes of partnership' (local - Parco Geominerario Storico e Ambientale - European and Global Geoparks Network - UNESCO) as the first component of creative partnering, which leads to integration of local communities into participative, cultural, redevelopment process in the context of Sardinian mining heritage as system design sustainability. ; Rad se bavi istraživanjem kapaciteta upravljanja rudnim industrijskim nasleđem Sardinije. Rudarska kultura Sardinije datira iz perioda od pre 8 hiljada godina, gde je oduvek predstavljala industrijski razvojni motor regiona, ugašena je '60-ih godina prošlog veka, a kasnije, 1997. godine, proglašena od strane UNESCO-a za nasleđe od izuzetnog značaja. Danas, ovi predeli se odlikuju izrazitom depopulacijom, i nedovoljnim kapacitetima upravljanja i rukovođenja; pejzaži izuzetne lepote imaju karakter osmišljenih, ali polu-doživljenih i pseudo-živih mesta. Istraživanje je pragmatične orijentacije, sa kvalititativnim karakterom; orijentisano da utvrdi šta i kako treba raditi u odnosu na željenu budućnost. Ono je multidisciplinarnog pristupa i uvek podrazumeva istraživanje u određenom društvenom, istorijskom, ekonomskom i političkom kontekstu. Ispitivanje trendova i urbanih potencijala sardinijske teritorije rađeno je u komparaciji sa savremenom evropskom strategijom. Istraživanje govori o 'zajedničkom kulturnom iskustvu' kao dugoročnoj komponenti održivosti, koja počiva, zasnovana je i pokreće se, na nivou lokalne zajednice. Glavno pitanje rada razmatra 'Glokalnu', lokalnu i globalnu, sposobnost upravljanja pomoću 'ose partnerstva' (lokalni nivo - Parco Geominerario Storico e Ambientale - evropska i globalna mreža geoparkova - UNESKO), kao prve komponente kreativnog partnerstva, koja vodi ka integrisanju lokalne zajednice u participativni, kulturni, proces ponovnog razvoja, u kontekstu sardinijskog rudnog nasleđa kao održivog dizajna ovog sistema.

This article explores the interaction between mining laws and customary laws in Ghana and Western Australia, with a focus on heritage impacts. The legislation and policies of both countries are explained and compared, and draft model rules for heritage protection in Ghana are proposed. It is written to inform Ghanaian traditional authorities, lawyers and anthropologists/archaeologists, government policy-makers and mining companies operating in Ghana and is a call to action for lawyers and heritage specialists – both Ghanaian and international – to work with traditional authorities in utilising their customary authority and constitutional powers to increase heritage protection.

Therefore, the objective of the research is to test the effectiveness of the Attention-Interest-Search-Action-Share model in mining heritage tourism but replacing the Action component with tourist citizenship behaviour. This will therefore yield new and key insights because there are few studies conducted in this area. The current study selected 220 tourists through a convenience sampling technique. The gathered data was treated with exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modelling techniques. Confirmatory results found on the acceptance of the first hypothesis, which is Attention Influences Interest, attention becomes very important in ensuring riveting tactics are put in place when promoting mining heritage tourism. The second hypothesis, Curiosity influences Search, is also supported and confirms that only in the condition of a deep level of curiosity, tourists search for information. The third hypothesis is stating that interest influences TCB. The fourth hypothesis postulates that interest influences Share. It supported the sixth hypothesis stating that Search influences TCB. The rejection was of the sixth hypothesis that stated Search influences Share. The seventh theory stated that TCB influences Share, thereby is accepted. These findings bear some significant implications for attaining the sustainable development goals. Precisely, it means that the promotion of mining heritage tourism advances SDG 11—Sustainable Cities and Communities—since this ensures cultural heritage is preserved and contributes to inclusive and sustainable urban development. Likewise, with increased engagement of tourists during citizenship behaviours, this particular act contributes to SDG 12 through the aspect of sustainable tourism and raising awareness. Similarly, the positive experiences that are increasingly wide follow up essentially give rise to SDG 8 through the promotion of tourism as one of the prime movers for improving the economy.